Team Lead, Android Core Product

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in France.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features from conception to release, collaborating closely with the design team throughout the process.

• Manage, uphold, and enhance reliability metrics for essential features.

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback on development.

• Assist engineers by identifying and resolving obstacles they encounter.

• Discover reusable solutions for the team and streamline duplicate implementations.

• Ensure shared components are well-tested, clear, and reusable.

• Lead initiatives to modify team processes.

• Minimize the manual effort necessary for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by refining the underlying systems.

• Advance verification practices and broaden automated checks prior to QA.

• Conduct planning sessions and prioritize tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish review criteria and approval stages.

• Engage in discussions involving Product, Design, and Engineering teams.

• Manage critical issues, oversee feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA.

• Mentor early-career engineers by offering meaningful tasks and learning opportunities.

• Participate in several technical interviews and a real-codebase assessment during the hiring process.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership roles or ownership of significant projects while remaining hands-on.

• Strong expertise in Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit tests.

• Proven experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other prolonged background tasks.

• Awareness of the significance of tests and approaches to writing them, including areas that may not be covered.

• An example of a change you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement, along with an honest assessment of the effort required to implement it.

• Some ease with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging others to alter their workflows and managing the ensuing friction.

• Insight into which changes demand extensive review and which do not, based on the system's functionality.

• A history of creating solutions that your team actively used, rather than solely focusing on personal efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, not just your personal approach.

• An intuitive grasp of product design, user empathy, and the motivation to elevate Android UI/UX beyond the specified requirements.

• A self-driven approach to enhancing the app and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Excellent communication abilities.

• Submission of a portfolio and LinkedIn profile is requested along with the application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace